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 DOOM ReviewIntroductionDoom is possibly the most known game on the planet, except for maybe Space Invaders, oh and Pacman, not forgetting Sonic the Hedgehog, oh and… Wait, This is about Doom… Doom was the brainchild of ID Software and was released sometime around 1993ish, It was almost the “First” FPS (First Person Shooter) on the PC, and had it’s legacy in the form of Wolfenstein 3D (Wolf 3D) and Spear of Destiny (SOD  ).
The storyThe UAC (Union Aerospace Corporation) is a multi-planetary conglomerate with radioactive waste facilities on Mars and its two moons, Phobos and Deimos. It’s been tinkering with research on inter-dimensional space travel, opening jump gates between the two moons, don’t you just know something’s gonna go wrong? The experiment goes wrong (Ha told you) and something nasty materialises through the jump gates, all contact with Mars is lost, Pause while scary music plays. A crack team is assembled and sent to Mars to investigate, and guess what, you’re part of the team, EEK! Your troops go in, you hear screams and firing all around you, then you lose contact with the rest of your squad. This is sounding more and more like Aliens II as I type. Oh Noo, You’re on your own. This is where the game begins, you will meet all manner of horrible wee beasties, including your former comrades in action, who have now turned mentalist. Run around, shoot everything, find keys, pickup weapons, open doors and make your way to your doom. Scary stuff innit….
Our Hero He’s one tough dude, He uses a revolver to play tiddly winks. All through the game He looks at you from the bottom of the screen with a grin. You can judge His health by the smile, or the, er, blood. He can take quite a few hits before dieing, but no worries mate (I wonder if He’s an Auzzie?) you can pick up health to top it up.
Wee Beasties These guys are Nasty, you will meet anything from mental humans to massive brains on mechanical legs that look like spiders EWWWWW…. Whoever designed these must have overdosed on toffee crisps as they are truly diabolical. Evil doesn’t even come close to explaining how nasty they are. Jason and the Argonauts eat your hearts out, you won’t find any golden fleeces to fix that paper cut in Doom you know.
Weapons 
Doom has an array of 8 weapons, 9 if you include Doom II. And they are as follows: 1. The mighty hand
When you run out of bullets, you can use your fist of doom (See what I did there?) to thump your enemies in the nose. You can kill a few of the weedier enemies like this but I wouldn't go thumping an Arachnotron, they are bad tempered and tend to pay you back the compliment with their ever so slightly more powerful plasma gun. 2. Chainsaw
No no no no, this is definately not for chopping down virtical shrubs. It's for running around like a nutter and swiftly carving up the monsters. Remember that, it may just save your life!
3. Hand Gun
Whoopy, one bullet at a time, this gun is what you start with. It's okay at first but you soon realise that you're gonna need something more powerful to kick hells ass to, er, hell and back? 4. Shotgun
Now you're getting it, this is one of the most popular Doom weapons, ammo for this is everywhere and it packs a punch. You can take out a Hell knight quite easily with one of these! 5. Double barrelled Shotgun
Ahaaa, Bang Bang your dead. That will teach you to stare down the barrel while checking the trigger mechanism! This weapon is the same as the shotgun, except it delivers twice the punch, but it takes longer to reload after every shot. Please also note this is only found in Doom II. 6. Chaingun
Imagine a handgun that can fire over 5 rounds a second. It uses the same ammo as the handgun but is pretty flippin deadly and accurate! And no it's not the same as using a handgun and firing it faster, that would be silly now wouldn't it.
7. Rocket Launcher
Long range rockets are fired from these. They are fantastic at taking out big enemies from a long way away. But holly mahoney mother of god don't fire it at a wall you're close to, you will get caught by Mr Blasty. 8. Plasma Gun
With this equipped you're able to fire a stream of pretty plasma where ever you point your finger of death at. Er forget the finger thing I just typed that as it sounded funny. The Plasma Gun is excessively neat, blue plasma streams from the barrel killing lots of things, that's good when you have lots of plasma ammo. Not so good when you don't! 9. BFG 9000
This is one Big Gun! Nobody knows what the F stands for, but it could be something rude, I like to think it stands for FLUFFY. The Big F****** Gun 9000 is mega deadly, using the same ammo as the Plasma gun it sends out one huge bolt of Plasma that vapourises every horrible grunting thing around you. It's only drawback is that is uses a lot of ammo in a single shot.
Graphics At the time, the graphics were totally ground breaking, I remember playing it on a 386 and I was totally blown away. It felt like real 3D and even had different light levels for different areas. The artwork was truly something out of a horror movie, it still looks ohh so scary today.
Doom isn’t however truly 3D, It’s simple a bunch of rooms connected to each other. Take the doors for instance, doors are simply a very thin room! When the door is shut, the ceiling of that room is the same height as the floor, to open the door, the ceiling is raised, Simple! You cannot have one room above another in doom. Mind you, I never noticed this when I first played it as the maps are very cleverly designed.
 Screenshot Sound Amazing. Just like the graphics, the sound fits the mood. The creatures scream when they see you, the weapons sound meaty, even the doors sound like they are alive. It’s a shame the Playstation version had a different sound bank, it wasn’t the same.
So many times I have nearly wet my knickers when I have walked into a room and WAAARGGHHH something screams in my ear, jeez. They got it just right! I have heard many other games and even films that have used samples from the game, just goes to show, or rather hear…
Game Play What CAN I say, This game scared the hell outta me, I remember playing this at 1:00am in the dark with headphones on. Next thing I knew was one of the guys who lived in my house racing into my room as he heard me screaming a lot. I got more fun out of the scaryness than I have with a horror movie in years. Enough said really!
Summary The game is such a classic, it’s hard to sum it up. If I was to think of one word to describe it, that word would be “extraordinary”. Even that isn’t good enough.
Score100 / 10 GIGGLES
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